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Department of Social Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Research Article
Factors that Predict Patients' Satisfaction with the Psychological Outcome and the Appearance of their Skin after Treatment
Author(s): Charalambos Costeris*, Maria Petridou and Yianna Ioannou
Objective: The present study examined whether dermatological patients’ demographic and social characteristics
could predict their satisfaction with the medical outcome. Moreover, it focused on two aspects of patients’ satisfaction;
firstly, psychological factors that could predict satisfaction from the medical outcome and secondly, satisfaction from
the appearance of their skin, after treatment.
Methods: 108 patients (18~35 years) participated in the study. Fifty four were diagnosed by their Dermatologists
with severe visible facial cystic acne (Group A) and 54 with non-visible psoriasis/eczema (Group B). The study
included two assessment phases: prior to and post dermatological treatment phase. At prior to treatment phase, all
patients agreed with their Dermatologist to begin medical treatment and were administer.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-9554.21.12.552